摘要：During the last decade we assisted to relevant progress in rehabilitation studies and in
technological development. From the combination of these issues rises the tele-rehabilitation – a
subfield of telemedicine consisting of a system to control rehabilitation “at distance” – as an actual
possibility of application and a promising development in the future. The present paper offers a
short review of the state of the art in the field of tele-rehabilitation, with a special focus on upper
limb tele-rehabilitation. The experience is also briefly reported of the preliminary application of
the H-CAD (home care activity desk) system and the HELLODOC (Healthcare service linking telerehabilitation
to disabled people and clinicians) tele-rehabilitation service, conducted by the authors
within two European projects in the period 2003-2005 and 2005-2007 respectively.
